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Product Taxonomy

Search a marketplace for "running shoes" and the results only make sense if every product is correctly slotted into a category structure behind the scenes. Product taxonomy is that structure: the hierarchy that determines what counts as footwear, what counts as athletic wear, and where the edge cases go. Get it wrong and search, filtering, and recommendations all degrade quietly, long before anyone traces the problem back to the category tree.